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We could call it something like "Common Language Infrastructure" or COM maybe.

• AlexanderDhoore 6y ago
  Should I post the xkcd? Here goes: https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
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• mpweiher 6y ago
  And then remember that Objective-C is, essentially, COM with language support.
• mlindner 6y ago
  Unfortunately COM was never OS independent so that kind of killed it off. It was also runtime instead of compile-time.
  • pjmlp 6y ago
    Why the past tense? COM is alive and well, being the way the large majority of Windows APIs get introduced since Vista. While COM is Windows specific, other implementations with similar ideas do exist. IBM and Unisys mainframe language environment, gRPC, D-Bus, XPCOM, SOM, Android IPC, Fuschia IPC.
• flohofwoe 6y ago
  Indeed, COM has some right ideas. There's just too much influence from the mid-90's OOP hype in it.
  • estebank 6y ago
    If you want to make a cross language protocol that most languages can support, OOP concepts will need to be first class citizens.
  • pjmlp 6y ago
    What? COM is the most successful implementation of ECS, I thought it was fashionable nowadays.
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